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Josiah Royce on Self and Community JOSIAH ROYCE ON SELF AND COMMUNITY by Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley Josiah Royce's life-long concern was to explicate adequately the no- tions of "self" and "community" and their fundamental interdepen- dence.' In doing so, he strove to avoid any form of atomistic, reduction- istic individualism, on the one hand, and flagrant collectivism, on the other hand. Instead, he argued that the searches for self, for truth, for an ethical, political, or religious ideal must necessarily be both individual and communal enterprises. This argument leads Royce to a number of important philosophical insights too long neglected in both philosophical and scientific circles, but sorely needed after years of domination by Car- tesian, Humean, or Existential atomism. Too long has human experience been characterized as a passive, atomistic, and highly individualistic affair; and privacy, guilt, and responsibility have been either ignored or recklessly e~alted.~Royce's views on self and community, it will be seen, take us beyond all worn-out dichotomies of mind-body, spiritualism- materialism, freedom-determinism, egoism-altruism, to a refreshing new holistic view. ROYCE'S THEORY OF SELF Four important questions about the self are dealt with and answered by Royce, namely: (1) What is a self? (2) How is a self developed? (3) How is the self known? and (4) What gives a self its unique identity? The answers briefly are: (1) The self is a process, not a thing, a process having both a public, physical, and behavorial aspect and a private, inner aspect; (2) the self is developed out of a process of social interaction vis- i-vis a contrast effect; (3) the self is never known directly, but only Jacquelyn Kegley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State College, Bakersfield. 34 RICE UNIVERSITY STUDIES through a communal process of interpretation; and (4) what gives the self its unique identity is an act of will, indeed, an act of love. The self, for Royce, can never be categorized as a thing, but must always be seen as a process, as developing serially in time. He categor- ically rejects any Cartesian notion of the self as an independent substance only temporarily embodied and involved with the realm of nature. "Whatever the self is, it is not a Thing. It is not, in AristotIe's sense, . a Substance."' Further, one cannot speak of self as independent of and separate from either nature or body. Royce affirms both the role of genetic and physiological elements in the development of the self and the affinity of human conscious life with nature. In the second volume of The World and the Individual, Royce dis- cusses four characteristics common to both unconscious and conscious nature, namely, tendencies to (I) irreversibility, (2) communication, (3) formation of habits, and (4) evolutionary gr0wth.j A11 of these, we shall see, are important to Royce's understanding of the self.s Further, Royce puts forth three hypotheses about nature: (I) The vast contrast which we have been taught to make between mater~aland con- scious processes really depends merely upon the accidents of the human point of view. ." (2) . we have no r~ghtwhatever to speak of really unconscious Nature, but only of ilncomrn~~nicativeNature . .' (3) . in the case of Nature in general, as In the case of the particular forms of Nature known as our fellowmen, we are dealing with phenomenal signs of a vast contcious process, whose relat~onto Time vanes vastly, but whose general character- i.jtlcs are throughout the same.8 Whatever difficulties there may be with such a pan-psychic view of reality, it has some merits in light of recent developments in both psy- chology and philosophy. Unlike Descartes, who saw all the animal king- dom in terms of machines, Royce allows that a study of other conscious organisms may lead to valuable insights about the human self. His view is more consonant with new interest in animal language, intelligence, and rights. It also cautions us against the substantialization we seem to engage in when dealing with mind, brain, or body.9 Royce emphasizes not only the continuity of the human self with nature, but also our common-sense experience of an empirical self. "The concept of the human self, like the concept of Nature, comes to us, first, as an empirical concept, founded upon a certain class of experience^."'^ The empirical self is constituted by both public and private experiences. A self is a certain totality of facts. Among such facts are the predomi- JOSIAH ROYCE ON SELF AND COMMUNITY 3 5 nantly corporeal ones, such as countenance, body, clothing, and physical actions-facts that both the self and others may observe and comment on." Royce even acknowledges that if these facts radically changed, so would the self.12 He also recognizes bodily continuity and the sense of a body as a criterion of self identity, though not the ultimate criterion.'' In addition to these public facts there is for Royce a set of inner, private facts of equal empirical status and importance for the self. In addition to the external or corporeal Self of the phenomenal world, there is the equally empirical and phenomenal Self of the inner life, the series of states of con- sciousness, the feelings, thoughts, desires, memories, emotions, moods. These again, both my neighbor and myself regard as belong~ngto me, and as golng to make up what I am.'" Further, as I have pointed out elsewhere,I5 unlike some behaviorists, Royce not only acknowledged consciousness and states of consciousness as important aspects of the self, but he also, before Husserl and other phenomenologists, stressed the intentionality of consciousness. According to Royce, mental acts are always directed toward objects, and also intend the object as having such-and-such meaning, as viewed in such-and-such a way.I6 Early in his career, Royce discussed the role of selective at- tention in all acts of consciousness. Attention selects only a few from the numerous impressions impinging on our sensibilities; many impressions slip through our consciousness without being retained or having any effect. Attention even modifies the quality of our impressions. Royce concludes his discussion of attention by writing: Attention seems to defeat, in part, its own object. Bringing something into the field of knowledgeseems to be a modifying, if not a transforming process." The intentional nature of consciousness reveals that the self engages in meaning-seeking, meaning-conferring activity. It further suggests that knowledge is obtained by a necessarily communal process. If I see the world from particular points of view, the only way I can transcend my narrowness and subjectivity is by checking things out with my fellows. Objectivity is intersubjectivity. Indeed, for Royce, knowledge both of self and of the external world is grounded in social interaction. Throughout his philosophical career, Royce argued that the self could never be considered a datum, but rather that self-consciousness arises out of a social contrast be- tween the self and the not-self, between what is mine and what is not mine. Royce writes: I affirm that our empirical self-consc~ousness,from moment to moment, depends upon a series of contrast effects, whose psychological origin lies in our l~teralsocial life, and 36 RICE UNIVERSITY STUDIES whose continuance in our present conscious Ilfe, whenever we are atone, IS due to hab~t, to our memory of literal social relations, and to an Imaginative idealization of these relation^.'^ Royce describes the process of coming to self-consciousness as follows: Nobody amongst us men comes to self-consc~ousness,so far as I know, except under the persistent influence of his social fellows. A child in the earlier stages of his social development . shows you, as you observe him, a process of development of self-con- sc~ousnessin whlch, at every stage, the Self of the child grows and forms itself through Imitation, and through functions that cluster about the Imitation of others, and that are secondary thereto. And his self-consciousness, as it grows, feeds upon soclal models, so that at every stage of his awakening l~fehis consciousness of the Alter is a step in the advance of his consciousness. His playmates, h~snurse, or mother, or the workmen whose occupations he sees, and whose power fascinates him, appeal to his ~m~tativenessand set him copies for his activities. He learns his little arts, and as he does so, he contrasts h~sown deeds with those of his models, and or other children. Now contrast IS, m otrr conscious life, tile tnother of clearness. What the chrld does ~nstrnc- trvely, and wrtho~rtcotnparison wrth the deeds of others, t7ia.v never cotne to his clear consciorrsness as his own deeds at all. What he learns imitatively, and then reproduces, perhaps in joyous obstinacy, as an act that enables him to display himyelf over against others-thls constitutes the beginning of his self-consc~ouslife." Royce does not need to struggle, as do Descartes and Husserl, to ex- plain how we know other minds. We are first with other selves and only later become differentiated, unique selves. Of course, I will see others as conscious actors not only because by observing their acts I become a con- scious actor, but also because they aid me in developing my self in new directions. Our fellows are known to be real and have their own inner life, because they are for each of us the endless treasury of more rdeas. They answer our questions; they tell us news; they make comments, they pass judgments; they express novel cornb~nationsof feelings; they relate to us stories, they argue with us, and take counsel with us.
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